The large dip in the first 10 seconds is due to my anti-virus.
Fantastic drive considering it only has 16MB of cache. I was very surprised that it was much quieter than my WD Black and a lot cooler as well (I can leave it passive without it warming up, but my WD Black gets a little warm after a few minutes of usage).
pcnazz - Those are some impressive results for mechanical drives, nice work man! Cheaper, larger, and faster than my old 300GB WD VelociRaptor!
Intel X25-M 80GB G2 (FW 02HA)
Asus Maximus III Formula
SATA Mode: AHCI (enabled msachi driver after W7 install)
TRIM: Enabled and working
Does anyone know why my HDTune READ benchmark results take so long before reaching a steady transfer rate while some get steady transfer rates right from the beginning of the benchmark (even though some of those results come from people running the same SSD HDD and same motherboard)? I assume it has something to do with the software and the fact I'm testing a SSD that has an operating system on it. I wasn't able to confirm this but some of the benchmarks I've viewed with steady transfer rates right from the beginning came from SSD's being testing outside of a Windows environment? Thanks for any help you can give guys!
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Asus Maximus III Formula (0902)
Intel i7 860 (L924B516)
Corsairs CMG4GX3M2A2000C2 (2 x 2GB) RAM
eVGA GTX295 (Dual-PCB & H20)
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Professional
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Optical SATA Drive
Thermaltake Toughpower 850w Modular
Intel X25-M 160GB G2 SSD
WD VelociRaptor 300GB
Fesser X-Changer Extreme 240
Laing DDC-3.2TPMP
Danger Den GTX295 H20 Block
ProlimaTech Megahalem DE Heatsink
Last edited by Roger_D25; 10-30-2009 at 02:48 PM.
Reason: Needed To Add Some Data to Post
Finally got my four 80GB Intel x25-m SSD's today (ordered them 3 months ago) so I can post my results! 4 x Intel x25-m G2 SSD's on an XFX 780i motherboard using onboard (software) RAID0;
This is with Windows 7 64-bit default storage controller driver.
The scaling of sequential write performance is great, I have run AS SSD a few times and seen over 320 MB/sec.
This fixes the low sequential write 'issue' for Intel SSD's for me.
Unfortunately the read performance doesn't scale as well as it could for 4 drives, with the 780i chipset limiting the maximum sequential read to 635 MB/sec (although that is more than 3 times more than my previous setup with two 150 GB WD Raptors, so I'm not complaining).
I was curious about the random access times and ran HDTune to get an idea (read only)
DAMN! The 780i chipset is really holding things back but it doesn't matter as four x25-m's in RAID0 blow any mechanical hard drive out of the water.
I wonder how they would perform on a SATA 6 Gb/s PCI-e raid card...